GRB051210: Swift detection of a short gamma ray burst

Details GRB051210: Swift detection of a short gamma ray burst GRB051210: Swift detection of a short gamma ray burst

2006-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602541v1

Astron.Astrophys.462:73,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to A&A Letters

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20065083

The short/hard GRB051210 was detected and located by the Swift-BAT instrument and rapidly pointed towards by the narrow field instrumens. The XRT was able to observe a bright X-ray afterglow, one of the few ever observed for this class of bursts. We present the analysis of the prompt and afterglow emission of this event The BAT spectrum is a power-law with photon index 1.1 +/-0.3. The X-ray light curve decays with slope 2.58+/-0.11 and shows a small flare in the early phases. The spectrum can be described with a power law with photon index 1.54+/-0.16 and absorption (7.5 (-3.2, +4.3)*10^20 cm-2 We find that the X-ray emission is consistent with the hypothesis that we are observing the curvature effect of a GRB occurred in a low density medium, with no detectable afterglow. We estimate the density of the circumburst medium to be lower than 4*10^-3 cm^-3. We also discuss different hypothesis on the possible origin of the flare.

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